April 4, 2024
Saturday, April 19, 2025
Welcome to CalDay at Berkeley Physics! We invite you to browse through the resources below to find out what Berkeley Physics has to offer.
Visit our Undergraduate Degree page
Basic information about the Physics undergraduate program can be found on this page.
Student Organizations & Mentoring
Berkeley Physics has several student groups and support resources available to students, including an outstanding SPS (Society of Physics Students) chapter:
Society of Physics Students
Student Organizations & Mentoring
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Find out more about being a Berkeley Physics major
Below is a video from a previous Information and Advising Session and Panel Discussion.
Wonder what life is like as a physics major at Berkeley?
Check out a video of the Physics 5 Study Hall below
What do people do with a Physics major?
Watch this video featuring Professor R. Ramesh on Career Paths in Physics.
What's it like to be a Ph.D. student at Berkeley Physics?
Graduate student Ashrita Mangu talks about her experience working in Professor Adrian Lee's lab. Ashrita is a collaborator at the Simons Observatory.
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Take a peek inside the Student Machine Shop
The Student Machine Shop provides hands-on opportunities for graduate and undergraduate students to learn how to safely operate the high-precision machinery and equipment needed to manufacture the complex components of their projects, apparatuses, and instrumentation. Check out the video below.
The Paul L. Richards Physics Innovation Lab (PIL) is a brand new facility adjacent to the Student Machine shop that offers students up-to-date tools for automated processing and computer-aided design, 3D printers and laser cutters, and soldering and circuitry stations.
Data Science at Berkeley
Lighting the Way to the Future of Data Science features Nobel Laureate Saul Perlmutter and Dalila Robledo ’19 star in this video about the ways in which Berkeley and data science are illuminating solutions.
Learn More about Berkeley Physics
Download a copy of the 2024 Berkeley Physics magazine
This issue features:
- Eos—The Dawn of a New Era in Neutrino Detection: New prototype detector evaluates hybrid technologies for the next generation of neutrino physics
- A Collegial (Dis)Agreement On Gravity: Antimatter laser physics apparatus (ALPHA) resolves a friendly dispute
- Probing Nature’s Perfect Quantum Bit: Exploring electron spin degrees of freedom in the Joe Orenstein Lab
- And more
Get to know a few of our scientists!
American Physical Society Documentary highlights to work of Assistant Professor Geoff Penington, who has won the 2024 George E. Valley, Jr. Prize
Amidst misinformation, critical thinking needs a 21st century upgrade features a discussion with Professor Saul Perlmutter and fellow authors of the new book: Third Millennium Thinking: Creating sense in a world of nonsense.
Improving Detection of Gravitational Waves using Condensed Matter Physics: Understanding Entropy and Defects in Amorphous Materials features Professor Frances Hellman.
The Dawn of the Quantum Computing Era features Professor Irfan Siddiqi.
Celebrating diversity in physics:
These free, downloadable posters honoring influential Black physicists were created by recent Physics grad Ana Lyons